Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Thursday, February 10, 2011

A discussion to follow

A political science blog is raising some basic questions about power, authority, participation, and protest. Students can follow the discussion and consider some of comparative politics basic concepts.

Why Do Protests Ever Bring Down Governments?
[W]hy [do] governments ever fall simply because there are protesters in the street? After all, couldn't governments simply go about their business of governing and wait for the protesters to go home? More generally, as political scientists do we have a good model of what factors actually determine whether protests succeed in removing governments from office?...

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